I bought a new 4 Tb HDD, formatted into a single large extended drive in NTFS. I'm always unsure about new HDDs and don't want to move all my data with testing integrity first. Had if for a few weeks, ran testing, data always maintained integrity, slowly moved data over a few weeks, everything seemed fine and so with some free time started to move my data en masse.
About halfway though the transfer, as I was transferring some large files, 1.5 gb and up, windows stopped the transfer and threw up an error saying that the file system had become corrupted and it could transfer the files. But I could still see the files in explorer and move around the folders, although I couldn't access them.
Thinking it was just a hiccup in the transfers themselves, I figured a reboot would undo what ever happened. To my dismay when the computer rebooted it wasn't recognizing the drive at all. Disk manager sees the drive and says it healthy but the file system is labeled as RAW. When I try and access it from explorer it has its drive letter but its name is gone, and when I click on it the computer says its unrecognizable and I should format.
I tried running chkdsk but it says it cannot access the drive because it isn't formatted, tied Recuva but again it wouldn't allow me to select the drive for the same reasons mentioned above. I also tried running RecoverMyFiles which allowed me to access the drive and allowed me to scan, but...it said the drive was only 1.5 Tb, which I think means the when it told me that it couldn't find anything it was because it was only scanning the empty part of the drive.
Can anyone give me some advice?!? I have home movies that are on the drive...if the file system get corrupted the data is still on the drive, right? Do I have a chance for recovery?!?!
About halfway though the transfer, as I was transferring some large files, 1.5 gb and up, windows stopped the transfer and threw up an error saying that the file system had become corrupted and it could transfer the files. But I could still see the files in explorer and move around the folders, although I couldn't access them.
Thinking it was just a hiccup in the transfers themselves, I figured a reboot would undo what ever happened. To my dismay when the computer rebooted it wasn't recognizing the drive at all. Disk manager sees the drive and says it healthy but the file system is labeled as RAW. When I try and access it from explorer it has its drive letter but its name is gone, and when I click on it the computer says its unrecognizable and I should format.
I tried running chkdsk but it says it cannot access the drive because it isn't formatted, tied Recuva but again it wouldn't allow me to select the drive for the same reasons mentioned above. I also tried running RecoverMyFiles which allowed me to access the drive and allowed me to scan, but...it said the drive was only 1.5 Tb, which I think means the when it told me that it couldn't find anything it was because it was only scanning the empty part of the drive.
Can anyone give me some advice?!? I have home movies that are on the drive...if the file system get corrupted the data is still on the drive, right? Do I have a chance for recovery?!?!